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Dava Sobel was born in the Bronx, New York on June 15, 1947. She received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1969. She is a former New York Times science reporter and has contributed articles to Audubon, Discover, Life, Harvard Magazine, and The New Yorker. She has toon meer written several science related books including Letters to Father, The Planets, and A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time won the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love won the 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for science and technology and a 2000 Christopher Award. She has co-authored six books with astronomer Frank Drake including Is Anyone Out There? She also co-authored with William J. H. Andrewes The Illustrated Longitude. Because her work provides awareness of science and technology to the general public, she has received the Individual Public Service Award from the National Science Board in 2001, the Bradford Washburn Award in 2001,the Klumpke-Roberts Award in 2008, and the Eduard Rhein Foundation in Germany in 2014. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Ontwarringsbericht:
(eng) Do not split into two authors. The author of the popular science books and the co-author of the backache books are one and the same (her website notes that she has written five books and co-written six books).
Fotografie: reading at National Book Festival By Slowking4 - Own work, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62180034
Werken van Dava Sobel
Lengtegraad : het ware verhaal van een eenzaam genie dat het grootste wetenschappelijke probleem van zijn tijd oploste (1995) 9,206 exemplaren
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars (2016) 744 exemplaren
Arthritis, What Exercises Work: Breakthrough Relief For The Rest Of Your Life, Even After Drugs & Surgery Have Failed (1989) 96 exemplaren
The Cornell Idea 2 exemplaren
The Last World 1 exemplaar
Living science study guides astronomy: forms 3-4 1 exemplaar
Star Watch: Man Stops Universe, Maybe 1 exemplaar
The Longitude Problem 1 exemplaar
Dava Sobel 1 exemplaar
Secrets of the Rings 1 exemplaar
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- 1947-06-15
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
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- The Bronx, New York, USA
- Opleiding
- Bronx High School of Science, New York, New York, USA
Antioch College
City College of New York
State University of New York, Binghamton (B.A.|1969) - Beroepen
- science writer
journalist - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- National Science Board's Public Service Medal (2001)
Bradford Washburn Award (2001)
Klumpke-Roberts Award (2008)
Guggenheim Fellowship (2007) - Ontwarringsbericht
- Do not split into two authors. The author of the popular science books and the co-author of the backache books are one and the same (her website notes that she has written five books and co-written six books).
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